- Location(s): Broadstairs
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): Victorian era
Only a dinner of first-class excellence can tempt the Prince of Wales to endure the ordeal of being the president of the Society of Literary Lionisers. And he ensures this by insisting that the year’s highlight, the banquet at...
- Location(s): Santa Barbara
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
No. 2 in the Marigold Cottages Murders Peace descends on Marigold Cottages after the recent spate of murders, but landlady Mrs B finds the calm unbearable, and she might not be the only one of the eccentric residents secretly...
- Location(s): Lake Garda
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
One happy couple. Two divided families. A wedding party to die for. On the private island of Castle Fiore – surrounded by the glittering waters of Lake Garda – the illustrious Heywood family gathers for their son Laurence’s wedding...
- Location(s): Mustique
- Genre(s): Cozy Mystery
- Era(s): 2002
Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer’s partying end. American heiress...
- Location(s): Europe
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 1930s
Agatha Christie’s most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Just after midnight, a snowdrift stops the Orient Express in its tracks. The...
- Location(s): England, Italy
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1797
It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master’s mate on Achilles, a 64-gun ship-of-the-line, on his way back from the Caribbean. After a dangerous rescue mission to Venice Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home...
- Location(s): Great Yarmouth
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Modern
A clever, witty crime novel in the vein of Kate Atkinson’s celebrated Jackson Brodie series. In awe of his wife, hounded by his agent and ignored by his editor, mild mannered crime novelist David Slavitt finds his life is...
- Location(s): Amalfi Coast, South East England
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Contemporary
Three couples. One murder. A holiday to die for . . . We arrived at a villa on the Amalfi Coast, ready to enjoy a sun-soaked weekend with our oldest friends – and one new face. By the end...
My Life as as Silent Movie Star
- Location(s): Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1920s forward
After losing her husband and daughter in an auto accident, 42-year-old Emma flies to Paris, discovers she has a twin brother whose existence she had not known about, and learns that her birth parents weren’t the Americans who raised...
- Location(s): England
- Genre(s): Coming of Age, Fiction
- Era(s): 1981
It’s 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a place in it all is nine-year-old Leon. He and his little brother...
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